US History 1877-2008

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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence Signed

  • Constitution Was Written

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the West

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Granted citizenship to former slaves.

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Vanderbilt

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens.

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed Business monopolies.
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    The Progressive Era

    Muckrakers - Those who exposed corruption
    Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    The Great Migration
    NAACP
    Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established separate but equal.
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    Imperialism

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Rough Riders
    Foreign Policy
    Immigration Quotas - Allowing only a certain number of immigrants into the country.
    Yellow Journalism - Exaggerating a story to get a reaction from the public.
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    World War I

    Alvin York
    Homefront
    M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    Sussex Pledge - Germany will not attack U.S. merchant ships.
    American Expeditionary Forces
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    Roaring Twenties

    Social Darwinism
    The Red Scare - A period of time where the US was scared of communism infiltrating their country
    Assembly Line - A line of workers doing certain jobs on the same product, helped with mass production
    Return to Normalcy - Going back to how everything was before WWI and the Spanish flu pandemic.
    Harlem Renaissance -
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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles - A town built by the homeless during the Great Depression.
    The New Deal - Passed by President Roosevelt, to help citizens obtain jobs during the depression and receive income.
    Causes of the Great Depression (5) - Over production, speculation and credit
    Court Packing - The attempt of increasing in the addition of Justices of the Supreme Court.
    Eleanor Roosevelt - First lady who changed the title of the first lady to one who interacts and moves for changes.
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    World War II

    Axis powers vs Allied powers, Hitler, Chaplin, pearl harbor. Brought us out of the Great Depression, by supplying allies.
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    Early Cold War

    Containment - Stop communism from spreading
    Arms Race/Space Race - The competition between to countries/nations to improve and or enlarge military personal and a race to the moon.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - The people who rebelled against Russia. They wanted communism.
    Communism - A government that owns everything, where everyone gets the same amount and quality of things.
    Domino Theory - One country falls to communism then the surrounding countries will do the same.
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    Civil Rights Era

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    Vietnam War

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century